This Is What Our Peppers Look Like In June
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In this video, we take a tour of the Pepper Geek garden in early June. This year, we're taking proactive approach against pests, and we're planning at least one experiment with the pepper plants. See what's going on in our garden this year in early spring!
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It’s comforting to know my peppers look like yours. They seem to be growing really slowly but I think I’m just impatient. I’m in zone 6B and they’ve only been outside in containers for about a month.
Literally same😂 I thought mine were stunted but they’re right on track I suppose lol
Mine are growing slowly as well
Be comforted knowing it's not your fault! my peppers also look really sad and haven't grown very much since planting out a month ago. I find despite the really high amounts of sunlight in May, my peppers don't usually start to grow more vigorously until overnight temps are consistently above 15ºC (~60ºf) which is usually around mid-June here in Hamilton, Ontario (also zone 6B). I find fleece helps, but i like being able to see all my plants...
Fr, I’ve been stressing 😭
First time planting peppers and yes they look the same including the Hawaiian Chili pepper plant. Thanks for letting me feel all is going ok.
I´m growing peppers for the first time ever and I am quite inexperienced with the whole ordeal. Your videos and guides did A LOT of the heavy lifting lmao.
I was worried I may have transplanted my plants too late and stunted their growth, but seeing your plants is a huge relief.
Great to hear! They should start to take off in growth soon 🌱🪴
We (Middle TN) are having a very cool summer. Yesterday the high was 62 and we had to run the pool heater hor hours. We're back in the 80s and since we are one of the rainiest areas in the nation, the peppers are starting to "kick in" (all from seed).
Thank you for this video, helps a lot with the pepper dysmorphia this time of year.
I winter-sowed four types of hot peppers in early April (jalapeno, cayenne, poblano, and serrano). I had amazing germination and up-potted all my seedlings between May 17-22. I then planted some of each into my raised beds once there were three sets of leaves which was very soon after up-potting them (and I used Biotone in that process), probably around the end of May beginning of June. I just had to stake them two days ago because they are growing well and we have been very windy. They look very much the size of the ones in your community garden. I gave the extra pots of peppers to a friend who says all his are also growing well. We are in Zone 6a in Central Indiana. We had an early warm spell this spring, then cooled off a bit in May and early June -- but we are supposed to get into the mid to hi 80s next week and I expect these pepper plants to really take off. Thanks for sharing your plants.
After watching this channel I can say all my peppers are doing really good, from giving them shade to knowing when to fertilize, and even topped a few and have some growing natural, I think I have over 50 pepper plants growing some in ground and in bags! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I'm here in Western PA. I grew 12 of the best looking Red Bell Pepper plants from seed this year with a lot of your from the videos on this channel. I kept 4 and gave the rest to my kids for their gardens. The 4 I kept are pretty much just stems after 2 weeks outside. With all of the rain that we had so far, slugs have been the issue this year and just feasting on my plants.
First year dealing with serious pest problems and you happen to tell me the answer. I am buying that clay right now. Thank you for all the wisdom shared over the years.
Here in Montana it's still too cold to plant the peppers out. Last Thursday it was down to 30 degrees in the night. I'm hoping it will be warm enough in a week or so. Your peppers look beautiful to me. I take mine outside during the day and in at night so at least they will be acclimated when I can finally put them in the garden. I've learned so much from your channel and blog. I recommended you to one of our customers yesterday at our annual community plant sale. Thanks Calvin!
I agree have had the same experience here in eastern wash state.
One of the reasons I started gardening was to manage depression... watching TH-cam videos of people with thriving gardens already in May because they are in another zone made me feel like a failure and even more depressed. It's good to see this video because your peppers are where mine are and where they should be.
If you are having that degree of depression you need to see someone. My wife's aunt's feelings went up and down. She saw gardens on the web or pictures of mine and instantly was down because hers is not as "good". I told her it's like playing the piano. I am a classical pianist but long ago knew I'd never be as good as those who devote 8 hrs/day. My wife told her to judge her garden on what she has done herself (control the problem) and it worked. GOod luck on peppers - they really need warm soil.
I totally understand how you feel, as i posted just now in another comment a good 95% of my seeds this year didnt even sprout (first time ever) and it sucks pretty bad, the motivation takes a huge dip but just have to try again and keep pushing! Depression/ feeling down about "failing" in the garden is normal but you have to decide whether it will stop you or motivate you to fight back and succeed even more the next time!
3 years ago when I first started i had some wonky and stunted looking plants but they surprisingly came around after some time... Just like humans, not all plants grow the same, same speed, same strengths and weaknesses so don't give up, your peppers will grow strong!
@@exploringgames948 You hear so much BS on the web. I get my seeds from places like Rare Seeds or MIgarderner. I start in Jan, have grow pads and large windows. I use seed soil and get 99% germination. Nothing fancy or extensive. I plant in the 3 x 3 or 4 x 4 containers and never have to replant. Good luck
Hey friend :D wanted to comment and offer encouragement with some tidbits/mantras that have helped me. I got into gardening years ago as an outlet and means to feel I have control over situations, help with the depression, and a myriad of other benefits that come with benefits. Like life, comparing yourself or plants to where others are at is RARELY apples to apples -- just because content creators or other gardeners, that have different experiences and conditions and zones and techniques refined and ability to interact with their seeds and seedlings and plants and SO MANY VARIABLES, is not healthy grounds to compare yourself to. This is not designed to chastise nor critique or shame, but to point out there are unknown factors that is life and that comparing yourself or your plants to others is a non-conducive mindset to have and stay in. The challenge becomes learning to change the narrative of how ya look at it - find solace and peace in the fact someone else is going through something similar rather than feel discouraged if someone and their plants seems to do be doing better.
I feel that may come off more tangent-y than encouraging, so I'll leave with don't get too down, I'm sure you're doing great as are your plants. Life happens and sometimes knocks us and our seedlings back, or pests and outside variables affect our efforts, but continuing on and not being as easily affected by outside stressors, like self-imposed comparisons, leads to more fulfillment and enjoyment in our lives and activities such as gardening.
"Comparison is the thief of joy" - Theodore Roosevelt
Also, googling "do not compare yourself to others", the Google AI has a numerous amount of helpful tips and mindsets to expose yourself to, to challenge yourself and your mindset, and begin the new and continued path of bettering the mental health.
You got this. Your plants are great. Keep going. Hope I didn't come off preachy, just really resonate with fellow gardeners with a shared mindset. "Grow through what you go through" :D
There's absolutely no need to compare with others, just enjoy your own gardening and remember: in gardening there are no failures, they're only lessons to keep in mind for the next time.
Have fun gardening, make lots of mistakes and just try everything. Who cares if sometimes it doesn't work out. Happens to me all the time with seedling and cuttings.
Enjoy your gardening. 👍
Calvin, you’ve now helped me for 5 years. Thank you. I’ve learned a bunch and I’ll follow in the future.
From southern Ohio, I followed PG instructions to start in grow tent. I started my peppers in the grow tent the 3rd week of February. I did two transplants in the tent. I hardened and transplanted in the ground and large planters the first weekend in May. I had my first jalapeno's that were ready to pick before the end of May. Never before have I had a crop to pick in May. These pepper plants are all 2.5ft - 3ft tall and pretty thick. Would love to share some pictures. It's amazing. I have a plant with about 8 blazing hot banana peppers at 4" each now. Cayenne's coming in and a crap ton of hot cherry peppers that are pick-able. Not sure if I will flame out but I grew some more starting in April. I am going to get a few harvests this year. THANKS PG.
I would love to see you grow a bunch of New Mexico chile and do a specialized episode about it. Many sources equate New Mexico chiles with Anaheim peppers, but that isn’t really accurate. Varieties like Big Jim, 6-4, and Chimayo heritage each have their own distinct characteristics. Plus it’s a type of pepper that dominates the culture of an entire large US state! Unripe green chile is roasted and used in recipes or made into a sauce. Ripe red chile is dried and made into the most delicious sauce in all of food. The best green chile is in southern NM near Hatch and Las Cruces. The best red chile is in the North around Chimayo and Santa Fe. Would love to hear your thoughts.
Tried a nice Mexican red brown sauce today that comes with tacos and another green brown one plus stew sauce. What is the sauce made with red Chile’s you’re writing about? Is it this one?
@@xaviercruz4763no, not Mexican. It is New Mexican chile. You can google up some images if you like. Modern breeds derive from a breeding program at Mew Mexico State University, starting in the early 20th century. Other types derive from heritage breeds that have been used for centuries. You can search New Mexico red chile or New Mexico green chile for images and information.
That said, of course Mexico has tons of delicious food and they know how to use beautiful and flavorful pepper varieties.
Love this. Feels like it’s been years since I’ve seen you do a garden tour. ❤
In Texas, about to start harvesting Jalapeños and cayenne…the habaneros are set just waiting on ripening. Had aphid issues as normal, think I’m through that need to watch for the hornworms next. Will start treating with Bt weekly. Will try to be done by end of June will cut everything down and will await late summer crop.
Same here in Houston.
I started growing ginger last year. I start it on a tray in January on a heat mat and put it out in June. Zone 5b Illinois . I get a " hand" for every thumb I plant. Totally worth it. My temperature swings have been nuts here. Much wetter spring than usual washing out all my fertilizer and causing my brassicas to bolt. Good luck. Thank you for the tour.
Can you describe you process in more detail please. Ive not had success with my attempts. Ohio 6a/b. Thanks!
@@ltgemini1599 for me I get a plastic shoe box. No holes. Half fill with wet potting soil and place it on a heat mat in January. It takes a good 3 to 4 months to sprout and get a good leaf going to plant outside in June. Not full sun. I burned mine in year one. Keep them watered Wait until October when there is a threat of hard frost and pull them up.
@@PlantObsessed Thanks so much. I'll plan to give it another try soon.
This is a relief I thought my peppers were stunted or something. Haven’t grown any in a couple years but this year I’ve got 14 pepper varieties and am very excited to try them
Hey there! I am one of your subscribers from india. Two types of peppers ( or chillies as we call it) are very famous here. One is the bird's eye chilli ( known as dhani lonka in my native language ) which grows in tge plains of bengal, and another is the akbare khursani chilli ( arguably the 2 nd hottest chilly in india ) thst grows in the foothill region of the himalayas. Would love to see you growing them and giving your take on them.
I’ll look into those, thank you!
So glad I found your channel! This is my first year trying to grow peppers. Mine started growing a bell pepper in May, and I was so excited, I let it grow. I stumbled across your channel when I was trying to figure out why my plant was still so small!
After two of your videos, I pruned the pepper and repotted the plant. Hopefully it starts catching up a little bit now!
I can’t wait to see your progress updates!! Definitely keep posting!!
I started my habenero plants a little early in april and started them from seed outdoors. Its now june and they are only an inch tall. They look healthy but growing very slow
We're in Georgia and growing a variety of sweet peppers. They are ranging from 6 inches on our purple beauty that we got out late to our giant marconi that's over 2 feet.
Hey Calvin, I’ve had great luck the past few years growing ginger on the elbow of Cape Cod. I got a good harvest, but also learned the hard way that it needs to be processed fast and either frozen or used if I don’t want to lose it. i also grew turmeric last year, and while i got a reasonable harvest, the tubers were immature and lacked flavor. Happy growing!
As expected your plants look great. I’ve never seen the SRS pepper but it’s definitely very beautiful and unique. We downsized to only 5 plants this year with banana peppers, cherry bombs and a tabasco pepper which is absolutely loaded already. Thank you for your informative channel!!
Thanks, sounds good for you though. It’s all about growing what you can actually use 🌶️
I'm in Northern Colorado. I put my peppers out about a month ago. They are doing well! About 20" tall average, blooming their heads off, and there are a few peppers already setting. I pruned mine last year, but I saw your new video not to prune. I'm growing mostly poblanos, so I'm hoping my yield will be higher this year. Thanks for all the great information, PepperGeek!
😂Thanks for confirming what I thought I seen about pinching peppers and they no longer do that. So I do have the right channel then.
I love this time of year. Our season starts earlier than yours so I am already close to having earliest tomatoes and peppers ready. The tomatoes in particular love my chicken manure-addended compost and exploded right away, reaching the tops of their growing cages in the first week of May. I have several New Mexico chiles growing, as well as red habanero, cayenne, shishito, and jalapeño.
Thanks for the garden tour. I was worried my peppers were behind schedule, I feel better after seeing yours as a comparison. Regarding the variegated tomato plants, to me they have the appearance of being diseased. My pruning hand was shaking just looking at them. I hope they taste better than they look. 😁
Glad it was helpful as a comparison, this is the usual for early June peppers here. They explode when it gets warm, so no worries this early, (as long as you’re not trying to plant from seed this late). Maybe variegated foliage is an acquired taste - we love how it looks!
First year ever doing peppers so i started light to tread the waters, got 1 Carolina reaper and two apocalypse scorpion peppers. Ive been BINGING your videos to ensure i do well, lifesaver for me!
I am in western Canada and have been growing my pepper plants since late January. Have already harvested some banana peppers but have only started today to put some of the plants outside. I have jalapeño, scotch bonnet, cayenne, red and orange habaneros, King of the North bell, and banana peppers. Growing season is 108 days (frost free) but less than that when it comes to warm nights above 10C (50F). I grow all of my peppers in 5 to 7 gallon pots. This helps me to extend the season when the days are still warm but the nights get cooler, being able to move the peepers inside or into the greenhouse allows for more growing time.
I feel like here in FL is the ideal place to grow peppers tbh. I started seeds for the first time ever in early January, moved them outside probably mid March, and now have 8 plants that made it to the final round of selections that are 5ft tall with fruits ripening, with 5 more plants I'm getting ready to move into their final pots, plus late batch of seedlings I just moved outside that are about the same size as the ones shown. Also the growing season basically never ends lol
I live in sunny Queensland; Australia and we are just into our first week of winter. My Birdseye chili is producing well (three plants all large bushes). I have one Cayenne chili (large bush) and three Habaneros, which are all still producing (flowers and chili). Last night we got down to single figure temperatures (9 C / 40f approx. conversion) but no frost as yet. I planted some Serina chili earlier and they have all got flowers and fruit. I started my tomato plants off using a 9-tub tray and I have 50 seedlings growing. So much for putting a few seeds per tub, in the hope you will get one too grow, when all the seeds you plant start growing. My Capsicums seedlings are just starting to raise their heads above the soil in the other 9 tub seedling tray. I was a little more prudent only putting 3 to 4 seeds per tub. I will see how I go I might have to get a few more garden beds going to plant them all. I have lettuce and cabbage and few others to start off in the next week or so. I think I need a bigger vegi patch.
This video helped with my impatience, lol! I live in zone 9a and was really late to the garden this year (depression sucks!!) but all my pepper plants are big and beautiful, have loads of peppers on them, it's just that by this time last year I was already harvesting and had been for not quite a month. When I saw where your peppers and tomatoes are right now, it reminded me to be incredibly grateful for the longer growing season that I have, to appreciate the zone and just calm down. It's so odd how easy it is to lose sight of things!!
It's really hard working though depression great job keeping at it! This is my first season back after depression too and I was really struggling with my poor plants looking puny but this video and the comments are so encouraging!
@@beth.hogancvt that's how I felt. And I'm so glad you're out there with your plants too. It was hard to get back to doing it, but it quickly became a point of joy and peace in my day. I hope it is doing the same for you
Why are you sad?
I live in Georgia, newbie for growing peppers here. I enjoy reading all the comments.
Today I harvested my first peppers and chillis from my overwintered plants. The plants are so strong and have woody main stems
I've got 2 Jalapenos, a peach scotch bonnet, a bohemian goat, a 7 pot primo, and a aji margariteno. All in fabric grow bags on my back deck. All of them are doing well, their growth has slowed a bit but they all seem healthy.
Nights are just hitting 53 in Bar Harbor Maine. Been gardening off for a few weeks now they are acclimated to outside. Can’t wait. Buena Mulata, corbacci, fish and Carmen
In SE TX, I’ve been harvesting peppers for over a month. Habanero, cayenne and bells. Canned a batch of salsa today.
Long growing season but so hot in the summer, even the peppers say NOPE to fruit.
I’m not sure how it would do in your climate but RED Rio Bell has been a game changer in my bell pepper world. It’s long not short and fat. Great flavor, but hard to stuff. Over winter’s great.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom. Excited to see how the topping experiment turns out. I do top, but maybe after this I won’t.
Blessings!
I am in zone 9b and my pepper plants have grown huge already and have lots of blossoms and peppers growing! My habanero is slowest to produce blossoms and peppers but since habanero is not as useful as milder peppers like poblanos and jalapenos. I only have a couple of habanero plants and more jalapeno plants since I can eat and use more jalapenos.
Wow beatiful gardens with those flowers and the chives! Very nice!
This is nice to see, as a contrast to the finished ripe large plants. Everyone are in different places but all ked to pass along the same growth stages, so it's good that you show these intermediary steps too.
I myself started up seven different chili types back in early March (the 9th to be specific): chiliucle negro, cayenne, jalapeño, serrano, yellow habanero, hot lemon and chocolate scotch bonnet. I currently have two of each in 75 liter tubs (rain water bins) that I fitted with a raised inner bottom and airing tube to make them "self watering".
Several strong "hi-bay" industrial led lights provide the growth light (900 W in total...) so they grow really well. The Serrano, jalapeño and chiliucle are at least 0.5 M and full of fruit, while the others are close to 1m. The hot lemons are reaching 1,5m.
Today I placed 6 of the largest ones outside on our south facing balcony, so give more space and provide even better light, since I can't keep them all close enough under my indoor lights. The others will stay inside though, so provide a test to see the different the environment will make, and also to avoid pests so o can keep them through winter. Last fall I saved a bunch of chilies from the green house and brought them inside in this setup with huge water bin as growing container and overkill lighting, and they just started growing like crazy, after a very poor summer. I got a couple of good harvests from them. However, I also brought aphids inside, and after fighting a battle all winter, I threw them out in January to get indoors proverly clean before the next growing season. I would not have liked to get all my seedlings (chilies, 10 paprikas, 40 ish tomato plats and dozens of various cucumber, squash and pumpkins) infected at the get go. Thankfully, it did not happen.
Thanks for the awesome vids you make at pepper geek. It inspires me a lot :)
It's funny this video came out at the time it did. I've been having super bad pest problems with my peppers and my mother said that her father always put a powder on his plants and never had pest problems and I wondered what it was. I wish I had seen this about 3 weeks ago.
Thank you so much for posting this. I’m in zone 5b and was worried my peppers were growing too slowly or were stunted. Great content as usual!
Glad it was helpful!
Ive been kind of anxious about where my peppers are right now, and this was super helpful and reassuring considering I live in a more northern climate. Thanks for this!
In North Texas I'm growing my peppers in pots for the first time in almost 20 years (moving in 9ish weeks). I topped them based on the side by side trial I ran last year and they're bushy and beautiful.
As a first time pepper grower, I was happy to see my peppers appear to be the same size as yours. I clipped the top off a some of my peppers, but as you mentioned in another vid to maybe try not doing this, so I will get to see how this works out. Thank you for this update! 🫑🌶🌱
Sounds great! Glad your plants are doing well so far. Good luck your first season 🌶️
I always appreciate your information, and anxious to now watch your "Grow HUGE Peppers With Self-Watering Containers (How-To Guide)" you reference in this video. I was able to successfully overwinter a few Carolina Reapers this past year as an experiment using your wonderful video regarding the matter, and just looked into and purchased your starter kit over at Bootstrap's site - a great deal having noted the prices over the past few years on that specific style/brand hardware. Thanks again for your fine channel, best regards.
I’m in to aquaponics, my beds are limited by my fish growth. They’re not big enough for me to expand my operation, so after some looking around, I’m going to try and graft plants together. I’ll m going to attempt to Frankenstein different peppers together. I’ve been told it’s the wrong time of year, but if I don’t attempt it now, there’s no way I will remember it in the spring.
I'm in SW Missouri. I started some superhot varieties from seed in late February. They are all now in their permanent final pots arranged around a south-facing area near the garage. They are pretty small, maybe 6 inches tall and about 6-7 inches wide. But super healthy and have doubled in size in the last 10 days or so. It's been rainy and rather coolish this spring, but when that summer heat hits they will likely really take off. Chocolate bhutlah, peach ghost, and some non-super hot varieties we just bought at a nursery.
here in central Florida, I've been harvesting peppers since Christmas from older peps and most of my newer plants are already 2ft+. I have over 30 varieties already started!
NE OH:
I have three larger plants in the ground that I bought from local nurseries.
I have a few smaller plants in my mini greenhouse sizing up a bit before I plant them out.
I have:
-prism
-serrano
-jalapeno
-cayenne
-habanero
Lots of other plants too!
I'm also in NE ohio I got some thai chilis from a local greenhouse and then I also have some habaneros, scotch bonnets, cayenne, jalapeno, banana peppers, serrano, ghost peppers, and some chili de arbol
@@insaniittyy That's great!
Last year something ate my peppers, so I got a total of zero peppers. 😭 So I'm hoping for some fruits this year!
@@robertcotrell9810 my first season was last year had a pretty good harvest on my peppers didn't really have issues with pests thankfully this year I have something munching on the leaves i found holes in em this morning so I gotta figure out how to deal with that
time to start growing some weed!@@insaniittyy
Beauveria Bassiana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are so many thing that eat plants that it will take care of. Some issues with beneficials, but its not common. Year after year ive sprayed to be proactive and till the end of the season beneficials are still there. Besides be responsible like anything else
I planted my peppers inside waaaaay too early, mid February in New Hampshire. They've been in their five gallon grow bags for months and outdoors since May 18th. They're Jimmy Nardello and a paprika pepper variety. They're huge already to the top of a tomato/pepper cage and loaded with peppers, one Jimmy Nardello is massive and ready to turn red real soon. It was too much work letting them get so big so early but now, it's freakin' awesome! By mid summer I'll have pepper trees.😂
Man I’m grateful to be in the south. My cayenne and Thai hots are almost ready to harvest, habaneros are starting to come back in too.
I’m so relieved to see that my peppers are growing the same as yours. It’s my first time growing them.
Glad to hear it! Best of luck this season 👍🏻
Very happy to see im outperforming maybe it will be a good harvest
Had a jalapeño going great and tornado winds killed it my habaneros and strawberries are recovering. It’s first year growing it’s a blast! Your channel helps a lot sending love from Texas!
here in eastern washington this year, our weather has been wildly variable, just had 2 nights of frosts, and then days in the high 80's. My plant starts have been outside then inside, very unusual weather, won't go into my reasons why but now it is the 2nd of June and I am just now putting plants into the ground, but I am ready to cover them if needed due to our wild weather, plus lots of wind this last month.
Jeff from East Tennessee. It’s been a cool wet May! Lots of clouds. Our garden is a little behind this year. Plants look great and not much pests!! I guess the Okra is the most behind. Okra likes extreme heat and bright sun!! I have it growing in trays to get a little bigger before planting it.
Keeping it a little more simple this year. Growing our big 4 kind of plants this year! Okra,tomatoes,peppers, and cucumbers! I do have some onions finishing up. And some squash and zucchini in big pots! If the rain will slow down then looks like great season shaping up. Thanks!!
I'm having such a horrible start to my years garden... 7ish of the 60ish seeds i started grew 😭did however get 4 new raised beds which is fun, gonna try sowing some fresh seeds see if i can catch up on missed time! I also grew 1 plant of dill last year and it's not taken over my whole entire garden that stuff grows like weeds! 😂
Honestly I'm blown away you guys are only at 200k subs, you deserve so much more! Quality content with tons of information! I also like that you guys are up for experiments, adds a layer of fun to the garden
I’m in SE Wisconsin (got bumped to 6a last year from 5b) and I put my plants out at my community garden patch on Memorial Day. 24 plants total with the majority being peppers but did some tomatoes and cucumbers too. A variety of annuum, chinense and Baccatum varieties. Fingers crossed I’ll actually get my peppadews to ripen this year.
Planted another 8 plants at my mom’s house since she has a big plot in the back of her yard that she doesn’t use much anymore. Serrano, peter, chocolate scotch bonnet, candy cane and a few cayenne varieties. Also put some cowpea and collard seeds in the ground yesterday in the patch.
I’ll put a reaper I picked up at a garden center in a 7 gallon pot and I have a few red and yellow scotch bonnet plants I need to put into pots or give away.
This is my first season growing anything, and I'm trying a bunch of different varieties: jalapeños, Jamaican scotch bonnets, "sweet" bonnets, buena mulata, lesya, and poblano. I also started some zinnias and a few different varieties of sunflowers. I got a little bit of a late start for my zone (7b) so my plants are behind in growth compared to yours, but I'm hoping to get at least 1 good harvest in my first season. I don't have a raised bed or good ground soil, so I opted for grow bags for everything and so far I really like them!
Thank you so much for all of the info across all your videos & site! I'm excited to see how your veggies & flowers grow through the season. And I'd love to see another huge Chinense species in the self-watering monster pot!
Funny I just used Surround today on my fruit trees and grapes. I’m in north central ma. Enjoy your videos.
Awesome I'm up here in Canada growing peppers! I'm definitely excited to see how your pruning experiment turns out! I got some aji charapita peppers this year I'm growing for the first time and planning on doing some cross breeding with them and a few others
first year growing peppers started to transplant them into my garden on 4/7 Cayenne , Red Bell , Green Bell, NC Reaper, Jalapeno and Chili Peppers. all the peppers are about a foot tall except the nc reapers they are a few inches shorter.. already have signs of flowers and more shoots coming in on almost all pepper plants.
I personally love the small orange habaneros. So citrusy with a nice sting. I love cooking with them.
I live in north Texas, we've had one unusually long-lasting minor heatwave and a ton of extra rain so far. I'm living in an apartment, so it's potted peppers on the balcony for me. 5 peppers I started from seed are between 10 and 18 inches tall, with most towards the taller end. I've also got 4 indoors in wide window planters that are between 12 and 16 inches tall. I have 3 others that I bought as seedlings in early March that are all over 2 feet tall so far
I am in zone 9a south central Texas. The sun and heat are brutal now. I only do container gardening, and I've moved my tomato and pepper plants under the outdoor pergola that has a slat roof, which provides dispersed, diffused sunlight for them. The temp is cooler under the pergola too. I am growing Better Belle bell peppers and Nadapeno peppers (not spicy) this year. Grew CA Wonder bell peppers and Better Belle peppers last year. The CA Wonder productivity was not that good, and the peppers were not that large. This year, decided to only grow the Better Belle pepper plants. They are about 2½ feet tall, more peppers on the plants and the size is big. Tons of flowers but not all of them have produced a pepper. I like the Better Belle variety much better. I use Medina HastaGro plant food as my water soluble fertilizer every week and am using calcium nitrate every 2-3 weeks for better calcium uptake.
Last year I snipped off the top of the pepper plants. Didn't do that this year and the peppers are flowering more and producing more fruit. Watched a YT video last fall from The Ripe Tomato Farms titled "Don't Prune Your Peppers!" Jeff grew some bell peppers tops snipped off and some peppers tops not snipped off. He did a comparison and prepared an analysis of the growing results. Very interesting. Happy gardening!
My peppers look similar, some smaller than others. It’s reassuring to see it’ll take some more time for full growth. I’m in Zone 5.
I have some indoor peppers, thriving by the large west facing windows in the living room.
The d'Espelette plant are about 1 meter in height and the fruits are 10 cm.
The California Wonder is 110 cm and have not got any fruits yet.
The Anaheim on the other hand is just above 1 foot and also have 10 cm fruits.
The Cayenne is 40 cm and have 6 cm fruits.
And the balcony plants, they hardly have any fruits yet.
In Norway the peppers, okras and other warm loving plants do best indoors 😉
I started sweets and hots way too early this year as cabin fever was bad. Started early March normally late March. I did start the hots a week before the sweets as they take longer. What I discovered was the Megatron jalapeno was a vigorous grower. Because the last two winters have been really warm I decided to plant out early with frost cloth ready. We had cool nights and it didn’t bother as our peppers actually do better in the fall, but the frost arrives too soon. Think it was Arbor Day I planted out about 14 varieties and I plant two different gardens. It’s my test year for peppers and last year and this year for tomatoes. Searching for the best in both. Last year the Tabasco just started and frost hit and hope I’m ahead this year-😅the roosters loved them as it was the first place they went when I let them in the garden was Taco Bell.
This has been the Best spring in a long time Z5a, WI. We are finally out of the severe drought of last year with the 5” of rain 2wks ago and seems almost every other day. We had only 3.5” of rain ALL last summer-it was bad. The peppers looked a bit lime green for a bit and are about a foot tall. We had below avg temps for a week and now the heat has kicked in and I used blood meal on them today as I didn’t want to use anymore water on them because more rain for Monday-Tuesday and just had an inch Saturday After I emptied the rain tanks Friday because it was dry here already 🙄. All plants are healthy and doing well.
My Big discovery was the brassicas under a low tunnel started April 15th. It’s been very warm here and I never plant this early and now know it’s necessary for certain crops to avoid that sudden onset of heat. It was a bit of work switching covers, ect, but I had State Fair quality Bak Choi, Napa Cabbage and broccoli so far. The Brussels, cabbage and cauliflower are coming along. I don’t think we have enough cool weather to succession crop Bak Choi as when I was harvesting we had a very hot day and that’s all it took to make them start bolting.
Oh, and the Megatron has jalapeños already. We have a desert like micro climate.
Looking fantastic… have a good grow season… thanks for the pepper geeks secrets and your energy… : ) ✌🏼🐸
I’m having major challenges with rain and also temperatures going up and down. But I live in Kentucky. A lot of my pepper plants have been stunned due to the influx of rain and cold temperatures back to back.
Yep. Indiana here. Temps and sunlight availability has been downright awful. The entire Midwest is going through insane weather patterns. 😭
Same here. Its been a challenging year.
@@bk6555it’s the return of La Niña weather pattern. Thankfully WI is out of severe drought finally. I almost forgot thunder can shake your house-😅thought we had an earthquake.
My jalapeños started fruiting last week, they are already about 2.5 to 3 feet tall.
None of my other peppers are keeping up: Serranos, Cayenne, Hungarian, Banana, Habanero, Scotch Bonnet.
I was most worried about the Jalapeños too because they became flooded a few times.
My jalapeno plants are doing quite well, my biggest problem was my cats did everything possible while they were indoors and got at them haha. So they took a beating but have recovered quite nice.
I got 18 shepherd pepper plants specifically selected seeds from a very big pepper. The plants are already nearly 2 feet tall. Created my own soil this year to so it’s really fun to see how this goes
Down on the gulf coast my pepoers are already starting to ripen. I’m cooking up some long beans right now with aji charapita, aji mango and Thai peppers.
Summer came too soon to Central Texas! The habanero I overwinter in a 5gal. bucket has 50+ pods tuning colors. Bell peppers volunteered in my compost, transplanted in March. One of those has 7 well developed pods. Had a hard time germinating Hatch seeds(saved from 2yrs ago).Sowed 100, got only 3. Same with jalapeño. Sowed 2 packs of seeds. Zero germination! Fungal gnats? Finally, I planted fresh(green, not dried) jalapeño seeds from a tasty store bought pepper and got nearly 100% success. Garden is looking good now.24 tomatoes, 3 varieties. 4 butternut squash trellised on the east fence. Pole beans on the north and south fences.20 okra on the west side. Sunflowers and herbs intercropped. Also, a small dedicated herb patch in a cinder block raised bed(basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary). All in a 20×20 fenced garden! It's chaos!
Any over wintering tips
i had a bad seedling crisis! I usually have a couple flats of seeds on my seed starting rack. this year, one flat on one shelf got hit with tiny white flies. Sadly, I was traveling and didnt get to deal with it, until 10 days later. while it was watered by my daughter, she didnt know about pests. So, one whole tray of pepper were EXTREEEMELY damaged and stunted.
I planted some of the better (far from good, but slightly better) pepper seedlings. I am editing my transplanting video and hope to have it uploaded to YT later today. The seedlings that were NOT affected are easily normal sized - 6 inches or so? The ones that got hit by pests? probably 2? maaybe 3 inches? Leaves are curled. I am out of Aji seeds, otherwise, I would scrap all of the stunted ones. HOPING against hope they make it.
45 mins north and 45 mins east of you: outside Boston area
Wishing you the best of luck with the remaining seedlings! They should pull through
This is my first-time growing peppers. I am in Central Florida, but mine aren't nearly as tall as yours yet. I didn't know about grow lights when I started so I just started them inside next to the sliding glass doors. After they sprouted, I would put the seedling tray on a table on our lanai that faces the morning sun but bring them in at night since it was still getting down below 65 degrees for the first couple of weeks. Since then, they have been on the lanai full time (I found that the screen filters the direct morning sun significantly - even measured the light intensity to verify) and they are growing well, but I think I started later than you did so they aren't as big. I put them in 4" pots 3 weeks ago and I think they are about ready for bigger/final pots, or maybe some will go in the flowerbed if I can find room. I just started the hardening process yesterday (I was on vacation for a week so delayed that.)
I made the mistake of growing all the seeds in the packets I bought, so I have 11 Calabrian pepper plants and 13 from a packet of mixed seeds (5 different varieties, so I call these plants the mystery peppers!) Now that they are all getting big, I am wondering where to put them all! Even if I use pots/bags for them, that's a lot of bags (even if I put 2 in each!) I probably shouldn't have started so many - just because a seed packet has 13 seeds in it didn't mean I needed to start them all!! 🤣 I would hate to not continue with all that have made it this far... I don't want to kill off any of them! But I am running out of room for them all! Poor planning on my part - or maybe I lacked the confidence that they would all survive this long! I'm not sure what I am going to do!
We gave several flats to a church with allotment garden and they shared with those in need. They were very happy.
I did the same 😅
Here in Eastern Montana we have had a coolish and wet spring and my peppers all look similar to yours. Looks like the 80+ Temps arrive this week and might be here to stay so I'm expecting my plants will take off soon.
Ha yes, the good ol' chive blooming on a corner of a box. Check!
Cool video. Good luck with the ginger! I've grown it the past 2 years in a pot here in southern new hampshire. Wait til right before the last frost and expect about triple the rhizomes you put in the ground.
I'm really interested in the jalapeno experiment. It's a good medium sized pepper. From what I've heard topping large varieties can be detrimental especially with a shorter growing season. Here in Minnesota I just got my plants in the ground this week.
❤ the clover in your lawn
I’m in Jersey. My pepper plants look like yours. Love your content!!
I follow you channel and you got me going on growing ghost peppers from seed .I started in march and they are about 2 to 3 feet tall and loaded with peppers.
Here in north texas, my peppers are producing like crazy, they're about 3+ feet tall, my tomatoes are 6+, we got an unusual amount of rain and things are growing tremendously fast
I started four varieties of scotch bonnets after the last frost for Texas and they are currently doing very well except for one of them. I put them out a little too early so they went through a lot of stress and almost died, but they came back and most of them are stronger now, except for one one of them that was doing the best grew really bushy after being topped so I’m excited to see how many I get from that one, but I am growing one MOA red scotch bonnet one MOA Scotch bonnet one Schneider Farm Scotch bonnet and one Scotch brains two of them are very bushy one of them. I only recently topped because it was slower than the others and the other. I also only recently topped because it was the most stunted and only has a few leaves.
South central TX. Two of my 3 Jimmy Nardallos are about 30” tall and I have 2 peppers that are turning. The tips are completely red but the rest of the peppers need to catch up. Most of my other plants are about 24” tall. My orange habenaro and my 2 Ghost Peppers are loaded down. I also have 1 Giant Marconi that is loaded too and hoping the plant can bear the weight.
Hey, you guys use bootstrap farmer pots too. High quality stuff those folks have.
My challenge is that it’s been very cool and wet. Last night we came close to frost temp. That’s pretty rare for June 10 in Western NY.
you can plant much closer in the raised beds. for example I grow my onions about 2 inches apart in rows about 6 inches apart and get amazing crops. in raised beds the plant's roots go down into the soft soil instead of outward as they would in a conventional garden with hard packed soil. also the spray clay will reduce the available sunlight tremendously on those pepper leaves. it will be like growing in the shade. in my opinion anyway. let us know in a month if the peppers are growing well. i suspect the leaves will get larger and the crop will get smaller by using that spray.
Like many of the commenters its pretty reassuring that your peppers are tracking right alongside mine; thank you for the showcase.
We have had a really weird spring and I was worried that the cold weather had stunted the plants. I'm growing in 5B (SW Chicago) and was able to get peppers into the ground two weeks ahead of schedule for the area because of the atypically warm weather, however the past 2-3 weeks have been making up for the weather we have missed and so other than some new leaves the peppers haven't really taken off.
I will look into the clay application as earwigs are always a problem for my garden.
Edit: I like the clover-mix lawn around your beds. I'm trying to do the same in patchy areas here but its a slow process.
Very similar climate to you, I've been growing some "sweet chili peppers" with seeds I saved from supermarket, the ones that survived transplantation are a little more stunted than yours, but we've not had a very hot or bright year.
Growing in North Texas here. We’ve had a highly active storm season, however the pepper climate couldn’t be better. Weekly rain and hot humid weather is blowing up my garden! My plants seem 2 months ahead of schedule compared to previous years.
I have a few already flowering. About 2-3 feet tall ghost and 2 reapers. I'm in so cal. Plenty of sun
I am in Houston, TX and I have a big Peruvian Red Rocoto. It is huge measuring 4+-ft tall and 5-1/2" ft wide. It is newly planted and less than 6-months old. It is a big beautiful plant with lots of flowers, but so far has produced zero fruit. I have another Aji Amarillo, similar sized, and it is producing lots of fruit.....20+ peppers so far. However, none have changed from the unrippen green color so far. With the wet stormy spring, many of the peppers have simply fallen off the plant. I am going to try to be patient, and I think if I can get both these plants through the hard Houston summer and into the beautiful Coastal South Texas fall I'll be well rewarded. I also have a Tabasco pepper, a yellow Scotch Bonnet, and Yellow Fever, but planted much later and much younger. So I think I need to figure out how to get in an Annum species, and I'll have a full spectrum.
I am in eastern Canada and my peppers are still in the house. They are hitting that really good growth phase so I am hoping to get them out into an undercover space next week. We keep getting 1 or 2 cool days after a really hot period that is making for some stressed people and plants.
I'm really fascinated by the kaolin clay spray. My wife makes pottery and as a result we're often dumping buckets full of clay water so I'll have to test it out and see if spraying it works similarly. Our biggest pest is always Horn Worms (or hawk moth caterpillars) and hand plucking them is nightmarish and never seems to be enough 😅
Thanks for all of the great videos and advice!
Not sure potting clay will have the same breathability as kaolin, maybe test on a small part of the plant! I think kaolin has specific properties that make it effective.
@@PepperGeek oh that makes sense. Wishful thinking. I'll do some reading and experimenting for sure. Thanks!
I’m in Ontario Canada and we just had frost at night. My peppers are pretty small.
It’s gone from blazing hot to days of rain to freezing back to hot again lol.
I live in Florida and I have a two and a half foot tall Sweet Cherry bomb. At least 25 peppers and two are starting to turn red.
Growing some jalapenos and Trinidad scorpions in pots on my balcony in southern Finland, the jalapenos looks about the same size as yours. The trinidad scorpions are healthy but absolutely tiny compared to the jalapenos, for some reason. Hope they will all make some fruit and also not die to spider mites like what happened a few years ago! Interested to see how the jalapeno pruning experiment goes, I have a feeling that the pruned ones wont grow as well though.
Question. When you spray the leaves like that white mix, won't you significantly impact the plant's photosynthesis?